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Education is not just about which school you go to, or what qualifications you gain; it is also about what you learn from your experiences outside of school. Write. a speech for your college or school Leaver’s Day to explain what you think makes a good education.
Hello everyone, I am Kiki, here to discuss with you about education. I believe education is not just about what school you go to, or the qualifications gained, but its more about your experiences outside of school. Have you ever had an event in your life that inspired you a lot? please raise your hand if you did. As we can see most of our ladies and gentlemen have that kind of experience. Do you feel that the experiences inspired you more than your teacher’s monotonous lectures? and again many people vote yes.
Even in school, we are living our lives. More than half of our day consists of activities unrelated to academic study. Our outside school experiences obviously play a more important role to shaping our personality and mindset, judging its time span.
Have you ever felt bored of a teacher lecturing about the philosophy of humans and the world? least I did. What they tell us are just abstract concepts, even if they are correct in some extent. Humans are curious creatures, they do not easily believe in what others say, it is mandatory for them to learn knowledge by experiencing it in their own life. It’s easier to learn that fire is hot if you touch it; it’s easier to learn that syrup is sweet if you smell it; it’s easier to learn that pepper is spicy if you taste it. Also, education is aimed to help a person thrive in the world, the best way for someone to master a skill it to practice, and experiencing life outside school is practicing our skills to live in the world.
Lastly, diving into some philosophical concepts, we as humans are curious of the world, this motivates us to study. Even though school education provides us with a more systematic method of studying, but the outside school activities is the base catalyst of our creativity and pursue of knowledge, it is the source of curiosity. Humans create education because they are curious of the world and want to know all aspects of it and believe that their descendants will think the same. Education is a easy way to fill one’s curiosity, but sometimes people forget that they are curious when information comes easily. Outside school experiences is always a way to remind one of their curiosities and boost their interest in what the teacher is telling and motivate them to be more immersed in academic study, while teaching people to enjoy their lives.
Fellow graduates, this is what I believe of education and outside side experiences. What do you think? if you wish to comment on this topic, please feel free to write to me or call me anytime! thank you for listening, looking forward upon seeing you next time! -
prompt: Music has no value when you are studying.
Hello ladies and gentlemen, I am Kiki, here to talk to you about listening to music while studying. Do you have a habit of listening to music while studying? Apparently, it has become a trend to listen to music because music is relaxing and enjoyable. Yet, it might be the best choice to listen to music while studying, because it halves your focus and limits your creativity.
Focus, in no doubt, is one of the most essential factors of studying. It allows you to easily focus on your task, increasing productivity as well as the quality of the task. A study in Michell university claimed that students who listen to music while studying get lower grades comparing to students who don’t, concluding that focus is one of the most vital factors of studying. Focus is not a fidget toy, even though they both start with the letter “F”, fidget toys could resume their past shape after deformation, but our focus cannot. Focus will only decrease and decrease. As focus decrease, the only way for you to focus is to fill your focus using other things, which could be listening to music. As time passed, you will find that listening to music, surprisingly, is the only way for you to focus on your study. Ladies and gentlemen, imagine that you are no longer able to focus on task without listening to music, how would you feel? sad, irritated, angry?
Coming to my next point, music limits your creativity. It strikes most people to realize how important creativity is in our life. In a school, the teacher assigned the students a task, which is to record a video about anything. Most students start preparing on the very first day, yet one of them, let’s call her A, did not do anything till the last day. In the last day, she rented a camera and crawled around the school while recording, and she named her video “to see the world like a dog”. and she got the highest score in her class. Of course, I did not share this story because I want to discourage hard work, but merely to emphasize the importance of creativity. It could be the pathway to promotion and success in our career life and the trap for high scores for students. Will you want to limit your creativity and obstruct your path to a better future? I believe most of your answers will be no.
To wrap it up, we shouldn’t listen to music when we are studying since it halves our focus as well as limiting our creativity. Which affects our work quality drastically. Because of the reasons above, I strongly urge you, ladies, and gentlemen, to stop listening to music while studying. Thank you for listening, looking forward to seeing you next time! -
When is looting O.K?
Have you ever thought of earning a fortune by looting? of course, it is a wide-known fact that looting violates the law, but can there ever be a condition in which looting is acceptable? Most people might argue that extorting from other’s fortune to fill one’s pocket ought to be condemned guilty. Yet, under some circumstances, such as when looting is for the greater good or simply to survive, looting should be accepted.
First, when looting for survival it should be morally acceptable because society should be responsible for an individual’s hunger and hardship. Nowadays, many people swarm into big cities in search of fortune and job opportunities. As the population is urban cities increase, the price of residence, food and life necessities will increase dramatically. As the profit-driven companies acknowledge the huge demand for such products and the fact that the demand for such products will not decrease even if the price increases, many people stumble to earn bread and butter in the city. In the rural areas, the residents harvest and sell crops in the periphery of civilization, most of the population in the country does not recognize their existence. All they could do is harvest crops when the weather is fine and emaciate during the constant famines. These are social problems that the country is facing, not the people’s fault that they are in a tough spot. Survival is human instinct; the people are not immoral when they loot for their family’s survival. In the contrary, it is the society that was immoral to those individuals. The famous Chinese philosopher Mencius once said: “human nature is inherently good”. It is the wrong doings of the society and the companies that exploit ordinary people of their fortunes, forcing them to loot for bread and butter. Henceforth, they should not be blamed, as it is the society to forced them into such as spot.
Second, when looting is for the greater good it should be accepted. Suppose that there was a girl, who realized that family A have secretly hoarded guns, which were banned in the world for the sake of humanity’s eternal peace. Guns are seen as signals of war; the girl was shocked. So, she looted from family A, and was called to hearing by the court. Of course, she was not condemned guilty but received accolade. The purpose of actions is often more important than the action itself, the girl did loot from family A, however her purpose is noble and kind. When an illegal action is triggered by a good will, then it should be accepted.
In conclusion, when looting is done for a noble purpose or simply to earn sustain one’s life should be morally acceptable. There are many flaws in society that are waiting for humans to resolve, we cannot condemn people guilty when they are simply victims of the society’s mars or trying to solve the problems they realized. Let us all take action and help the ones in need to make the society better and praise the ones who acts for the greater good of humanity. -
Dombey and Son: Charles Dickens
In this extract, there is an attempt to create Florence’s thoughts and feelings. evaluate how successfully this is achieved. Support your view with detailed reference to the text.
In this extract from ‘Dombey and Son’, Charles Dickens successfully achieved his attempt to create Florence’s thoughts and feelings, by using various linguistic and structural techniques.
The author uses polysyndeton to show Florence’s desperate feeling. In the start of the passage, Florence was driven from her home by her father and stepmother, she fled hastily from the house, described the author as “without a thought, without a hope, without a purpose”. the author uses three “without” to show how desperate Florence is, for she does not have the accepted beautiful concepts of humanity in her heart. The use of polysyndeton shows Florence’s pain through her mental feelings.
Dashes are used in this extract to elaborate on concepts, which increases the desperate feeling shown to the reader. After Florence was rejected by her father and stepmother, she left the house but have nowhere to go. Yet she felt she need to go “somewhere – anywhere.” Dash is used to elaborate in this sentence, creating a stronger sense of pain by emphasizing it twice. “somewhere” indicates that Florence doesn’t have any idea of where to go, which denotes to her having nowhere to go. While “anywhere “shows that she is desperate enough to travel anywhere. both words are used to show Florence’s feeling of being lost. Another example was presented as Florence enters the market, but her desperate feeling has not yet fade away. In the middle of the passage the author writes “she had been lost in the wild wilderness of London—though not as lost as now—and went that way”. dashes are used again in this passage to elaborate on the concept of “lost”. the first “lost” is to be lost in the physical world, while the second is to be lost in her mental world. Yet the pain of losing in the mental world was much worse than losing in the physical world, further creating the sentiment of pain by comparing two loses. The use of Dashes accentuates on words or phrases by elaborating, contributing upon creating the protagonist’s immense sorrow.
The author uses the structural technique of dashes and the linguistic technique of polysyndeton to depict Florence’s sorrow successfully. -
Writing course homework
in this extract there is an attempt to create an atmosphere of suspense. evaluate how successfully this is achieved. Support your views with detail reference to the text.
In this extract from ‘Dracula’ written by Bram Stoker, the atmosphere of suspense is created successfully.
Stoker intends on creating suspense by using the Count’s hand as a clue. Examples of this could be the start of the passage, where the count “motioned his hands as if he were washing them”. The count might be trying to convey a message to the storyteller and judging from the count’s previous threats it might be something terrible. But this message is unknown, which creates suspense for the reader. Another example is where the main character saw the count hands that helps him crawl out of the window, the main character confessed that “in any case I could not mistake the hands which I had had so many opportunities of studying”. The intentional emphasize on the count’s hands might forbode future horrors that is unknown in this point of the story, which also creates suspense for the reader.
Another method that Stoker used to create suspense is contrast between what the reader expects and what is described. The author started the expert with the count’s threats of how dangerous the castle is, then describes the scenery that the main character saw upon looking outside the window. Everything is “almost as light as day”, even the darkness is “velvety”, and “in the soft light the distant hills became melted”. This peaceful and gorgeous scenery have a huge contrast with the castle described by the count. This might make the reader feel suspense, since the real nature of the castle is unknown, all the beauty of the castle might just be an imagination woven by the main character. Afterwards in the excerpt something bad did happen, for the main character saw the count crawl out of his window. Another example is the change of the main character’s feeling from when the main character was enjoying the fake beauty of the castle to him discovering the presence of the Count. The main character’s feeling converted from being “interested and somewhat amuse” to feeling “repulsion and terror”. To be interesting and amused in a creepy castle might forbode bad things happening in the future, while the sudden change of feeling will make the reader wonder what has occurred, therefore creating suspense.
Thirdly, Stoker uses a cliffhanger to create suspense for the reader. In the end of this excerpt, upon seeing the old Count crawling out of the window into the abyss like a lizard, the main character was scared and exclaimed in fear “what manner of man is this, or what manner of creature is it in the semblance of man?” this statement was more of an expression of fear rather than a question but could make the readers wonder the same thing. The fear was not unleashed in this excerpt nor was the question answered, henceforth, creating suspense. Another example is the end of the extract where the main character confessed that his fear “encompassed” him and that the future horrors are things that “he dares not think of….”. the use of the word “encompassed” shows how he feel thoroughly surrounded in fear, and the real secret of the castle was not unveiled, but represented by “….”, creating suspense for the reader.
Using various methods such as the clue of the Count’s hand, the contrast between what the reader expects and what is describes, and the cliffhanger at the end. The excerpt is successful in creating suspense.
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Can peer pressure be a good thing?
Peer pressure is negatively colored by most people, it is believed to cause problems for adolescents. But peer pressure have a hidden bright side, it is proved to help children enormously in their academic lives and their future social life.
First, peer pressure intrigues people to work hard. Peer pressure occurs, when your peer started working hard and getting better. According to a 2011 study of child development, children tends to be better academically if they study with smarter students. When your peer get a low grade, it gives you an excuse to rationalize your bad grade. Like the phrase we say to our parents” they also did/got xxx, why can’t i?”when I got a 4 on my chinese essay It was a total tsunami, but when I heard that my two best friends also got 4; I felt like a exhausted ship finally finding a haven. We care more about not being the laggard in the community than grades itself. However, when a partial of individuals in the community started to stray further forward, leading the whole community further into the sea. The indolent you will feel jeopardy, which forces you to move forward, If you don’t want to be the laggard.
Second, it help adolescents prepare for the society. In the society peer pressure is much more advanced and teeming with gunpowder, if you fall behind then you might be eliminated for good. If we learn to revive from resting and laziness and learn that working hard is the forest rule, we can adjust to the competitions in society.
You may argue that pear pressure causes children anxiety. But it is not so. Anxiety of pear pressure is either caused by the parent’s overpressure or by your own laziness. Peer pressure itself is good, but when parent came, it become a war. Children are sensitive, they already feel the pressure of their peer and are also ready to work hard with the pack. However, parents made them feel they’re useless. One of parent’s tags is” look at xxx, she/he is so great, you’re just a disaster!” This causes children to feel drastic and hate each other. I have a friend and her mother loves saying those tags. And apparently most of those child-hurting tags are centered around me. Once we were sitting in a car together, her mom was exaggerating how good I am. My friend, who has been watching a movie with me slammed her computer shut. Turned her back, and didn’t talk the whole way; her eyes burning with flames of rage. However, we shouldn’t mix concepts, this is parenting pressure not peer pressure. Parents should stop pressuring children, because peer pressure has just done the work needed to impel your child. Adding parenting pressure onto peer pressure is too overboard. The other reason is one’s laziness, refusing to work hard even when the society is accelerating in haste. But if you refuse to work hard, it’s your own problem. you can’t drag the hard-working pupils back, just to make you comfortable.
Many people has been labeling peer pressure wrongly, the many problems peer pressure cause is either parent’s problem or one’s over-laziness; peer pressure itself can impel people or work hard and help prepare adolescents for society. Peer pressure shows that the world is working hard, this should be encouraged not suppressed. Henceforth, I believe peer pressure can be a good thing. -
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Is violence ever the answer?
I believe that violence is never the answer, as violence is something that starts with the yearn for power, and always result in physical and emotional damage. These damage often can’t be recovered, and could lead to more severe damages.
First, violence leads to endless violence. power is a weighter, and the two sides is the amount of power one possesses. Violence causes power to be unbalanced, as violence is always too overboard. Violence is either powered by implacable hatred or strong desire, both of them are too strong, the winning side of violence will always want to hurt the other side as much as they can. Which make one side too strong and the other too week, the week side wanted to revenge so there is another war……once violence starts there will always be another violence. In the First World War, Germany crave for power but was defeated. They are obliged to sign the trity of Versailles, which oppress Germany is every way; in debt with many countries, currency inflation……it is nearly impossible to survive, which arouse hatred in many residents. This is the reason why Nazi started and was very supported. Violence always lead to endless violence, which will eventually lead humanity into self-destruction. Therefore, violence is never the answer.
You might say that violence actually solve some problems, like after the civil war there are no longer slaves. But actually, violence is a poison. Humanity is a pot of water, when it faces a problem its boiling. When we put poison inside the pot, it only distracts them from the current problem. But did the original problem cease to exist? No. After civil war, discrimination and racism still exists. Nothing changed. only the fact that humans are more poisoned by violence.
Third, The only way to solve the problem is to change how people think, not to use violence to force a community to act several way. If one’s mindset don’t change then they will still do the same thing if the force of violence is reduced. The slave owners of the civil war will gladly accept slaves again if the slaves lessen their violence against slave owners. If we only think about changing how people think then there must be endless violence protect the world’s peace. However, if we all think some way, then violence is not needed anymore.
To sum it up, violence is never the answer because violence never solve the problems and lead to endless violence. The only way to solve problems is to change how people think, therefore, we should put down the weapons and change our mindset. Though it is a hard and slow process, it’s the only effective way to solve our problems. -
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